PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 62 76
Rank change year-on-year +33 +14 +3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 91 34 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 9.12% 2.82% 3.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.03% 6.75% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 19 18 27
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £37,000 £51,500 £49,394
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.57% -11.54% +13.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,490
90th Percentile - £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 413 504 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.38% 41.79% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 160 261 379
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £34,563 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £77,607
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) CICS
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Workday HCM
2 3 (3.30%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 74 (81.32%) Azure
2 36 (39.56%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (32.97%) Entra ID
5 24 (26.37%) dbt
5 24 (26.37%) Snowflake
6 17 (18.68%) Azure Key Vault
7 14 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (10.99%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (10.99%) GitHub
9 8 (8.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (8.79%) Boomi
9 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (8.79%) Mimecast
9 8 (8.79%) SaaS
10 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.40%) AWS
11 4 (4.40%) Azure App Service
11 4 (4.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) Firewall
2 7 (7.69%) Telnet
3 4 (4.40%) BGP
3 4 (4.40%) DNS
3 4 (4.40%) LAN
3 4 (4.40%) MPLS
3 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 4 (4.40%) WAN
3 4 (4.40%) Wireless
4 3 (3.30%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.10%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.10%) DB2
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) JIRA
2 6 (6.59%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (83.52%) Finance
2 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Senior
2 21 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Platform Specialist
6 6 (6.59%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Applications Support
8 3 (3.30%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Lead
8 3 (3.30%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) GraphQL
1 10 (10.99%) OAuth
1 10 (10.99%) OpenAPI
1 10 (10.99%) Swagger
2 8 (8.79%) REST
2 8 (8.79%) SAML
2 8 (8.79%) SOAP
2 8 (8.79%) Web Services
3 7 (7.69%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.89%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.69%) Equities
3 7 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Robotics
7 2 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.77%) Windows
2 14 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.40%) VMS
4 3 (3.30%) Linux
5 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (78.02%) Asset Management
2 69 (75.82%) Coaching
3 58 (63.74%) Agile
4 51 (56.04%) DevOps
5 47 (51.65%) Roadmaps
6 42 (46.15%) ITIL
7 39 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (36.26%) CI/CD
8 33 (36.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (32.97%) AI
10 26 (28.57%) Analytics
10 26 (28.57%) FinOps
10 26 (28.57%) Machine Learning
10 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
11 24 (26.37%) Mentoring
12 18 (19.78%) Information Security
13 12 (13.19%) User Experience
14 11 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.24%) Python
2 35 (38.46%) SQL
3 24 (26.37%) Bash
4 10 (10.99%) C#
5 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) CISSP
1 6 (6.59%) CREST Certified
1 6 (6.59%) SANS
2 3 (3.30%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.20%) CCNA
3 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) CEH
4 1 (1.10%) GIAC
4 1 (1.10%) GREM
4 1 (1.10%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) Accessibility
2 10 (10.99%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (19.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 13 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 10 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.40%) Docker
5 1 (1.10%) RACF
Systems Management
1 48 (52.75%) Terraform
2 20 (21.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.79%) SCCM
3 8 (8.79%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (7.69%) Ansible
5 5 (5.49%) Grafana
6 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (1.10%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (54.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.79%) Cisco
3 8 (8.79%) MuleSoft
3 8 (8.79%) Workday
4 7 (7.69%) Charles River
5 6 (6.59%) Splunk
6 4 (4.40%) F5
6 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.40%) IBM
6 4 (4.40%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.30%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.10%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.10%) Proofpoint